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SPANISH PAPERS. RIVATE SETTER, rAL k .mos, lettersyeceived by your here, from your correspondents at Mahon, con - .tain the following idvices :—€ Y-e'need not now 'pea the sopo English who Were coming from Sicily, wince filiey received oTderS; On the Voyage,' to put *back, in consequence of ,the Neapolitans having applied' or _their assistance to &hake off 'the yoke of the French. All the troops.that were in Sicily,,lio r th ,Finglish and Sicilians, lave already landed on the Continent. We conceive that at this moment . that kingdom is in a state of general iiisurreetiOn, and expe& that the French there will be totally extermi- 'naked.' a This afternoon arrived in this harbour, in six dayg, from St. Pedro, in Sardinia, the S. Josef fe lucca, MARLIN MoNE, Master. He affirms, that at St. Pedro positive accounts 'bad been received of " the landing of thanglish and Sicilian troops in the t 'kingdom of . Naples, of their having been joined by the Calabrians, and of their acting in the most vi , or9us manner against the Usurper, Min4r, with an united force of 80,000 men. He adds, that the 1 i Spanish Consul At St. Pedro direeted hirn to com , municate this intelligence on his arrival in Spain." - - jil •----- .• - . . ',' ENTEAOT OF A LETTER ,FE02.1. ORTU,GAL, OCT. 20. 'the forination and increase of the ,Portuguese ! army do not gO on so rapidly as could be wished; ; • but there is reason to believe , that from hedde va- - i . 'rotas-stimuli will be applied to quicken the tardy and 'negligent. , The good Portuguese desire it, and there are many of'them ; but hitherto the impulse given .. 1 has suited only the routine of ordinary times. Ne %ertheless they will give a better account .61 them y . ' ! the time . BoONAFARTE brings his 160,000 men; the Conscription of :the 'year . 16 . ,.. and the four preceding years. The following:is the amount of The army, accord ing to the augmentation Voted on the 14th inst. - by 'the Council of War : • - Raitalions . of Chasseurs, of 0/5 each - .3,768 z 4 Regiments of Intantry of the Line, of !sic) 37,200 zz Ditto. • - Cavalry - 594 7,128 4 Ditto Artillery t2a2 4,400 , 43 Ditto' Militia , - t;lo 51,248 ;0i,744 The' wretched inhabitants of Vittoria, experience every . day new ekadions and 'cruelties from the' 'French. Lafsly, they.have decreed, that all! stran gers who arrite at that city, whether.passing through 'or to abide there, must furnish themselves with a law protedion, under the penalty of being treated as spies; and the keepers, of inns and the inhabitants of.private holises.who receive such persons, are con sidered as accomplices. Woe lam, who through chance, carelessness, or forgetfulness, is met ,nn lurni:ilied with slid] a card. The first Offier'.,of a ;f9"laiing party whom he meets , may think p r Op er to dLiand it'of him in the street, (which frequently happens) and in an instant the bloody law is put into execution. VALENCIA, N0v..8.-..-We learn by letters from Catatolia, that his ExCellency D. J u Ate MANUEL DE, 'VINT ES has transferred his head-quarters from :Villa fraiiea'to Mature!, which is about three leagues. from Barcelona, 'and that more than 4000 of our troops, and swine English alio, have arrived at Rosas. The regiments of the division of 14131N6, under orders for Catalonia, are nPW marching through this , city.. We are highly gratified with seeing their good coirddit,' discipline, spirit, and their generous ardour once more to confound the pride of thoSe eagles wt•ii - ...11 'they so gloriouslY raid prostrate at "• • •- ..•NlicH Oar. 51.—Our junta . has received the . ful 7 sowing!etc& from that of Manresa, dated tbe . 29th, , • " The French being apprised that we were send ing a convoy of anuntinition to Col DON VRANCIsCO niade. an attempt to intercept it, advanc iir4rtbi- that - purpose to . within three miles of Saba-' Ct ;• but, thank God, the escort being informed of Itiedesign.6l the enemy,. disappointed it by falling 'pack." • AaANJuzz, Nov. 14.—The Secretary of State for i - WarDepartment has received the following dis -1111."(f from Lient.-Qeperal Do* „T 0.% Qui:4 BLAKE, Bated at Valmaseda, on the 7th and Bth instant : Most 'Excellent •Seignor--In order to secure he means of ye-concentrating my forces, a-matter of itniouparipe tip'on occasions, and more Parti-_ tularly . under the circumstances of my army being, attacked by such superior numbers, and to a'pproxi-• inste the only road by which I could procure the ine.3ns•of subsistence, 1 determined on the 3d inst. to unite the d4fere.ut divisions, including that , of the North,. which had just reached the vicinity of the' -little town of Nava, All effeded a junction, with 'exception of the second.'division of Gallicia, and part of the troops of Asturias,.formincr a corps un der 'the command of his Exaellency D. VINCENT AcEvEpo. ThiS corps. was attacked by the enemy lis t ,ioperior force on the 3d inst. between Llarneno ant; Meoegarai ; and the enemy, though vigorously r ., .:1,31 . ;fed, took a position bet Wee- the corps un :r'er Seignor AcEvEno and .the army, apparently, and. iceorkiing to the information I received, with the expedation "of a reinforcement, in order to prevent. Aci;'i:Lo from etTe6ting a. jutlaion with This intbrmation reached we on the morn ug of •the - ,4th. • I instantly saw the necessity of a .decisive movement against the - enemy; and ac cordingly gave orders that, the same night, the 3d commanded by Brigadier D. FRANCISCO ItIQU ELME, with one Willie corps of Asturias, uti r • der-the orders of Field-Marshal D. GR EGORI .Qu Ito!, should proceed in quest of and attack the corps l'ot the enemy that intercepted the passage of 4cEvP.- . D 0 • that the 4th :division and' the advanced guard should tnarch - for Valrnaseda, with the View' of at tackinci whatever troops of the . enclny they might fall in with ;' that the first and reseive should pro --tetd, under my irrirnediate command; torTordejue -la to cLt oil tlie:&l4 - Imunic4ilon between the ditfe :- 'rent _French 'divisions ; that the corps tit the North should remain-posted at Berron as a ectieral'reierve. " At :the_ very instant of cornmencing our march, received advice that _the! corps of Seignoi Acrs- Lrio 1i.,:( 1 .-been' able to change 'q . position, and . had up a new arid verTadvatitfigeous one betweeii Gordejucl'a; Valm'asedai and Prnpititi, 'bul. that •th i e nerny,' pon6derabie numbers were st,ll Occif- Vied in watc.hipg its moyements. Ihis new disrosi, a JOAQUIN BLAKE." Valmaseda, Nor. 7, t 303. " The Secretary for the - War Department." .dots Dv, I!'...cfAxpiao P.4,cessarily fledi-to' /tome alteration in r r -The troops undet,iSeinors Clutxbs anal gretti4raz ii ere order ed to attack the" enemy, frvu . tte indications they had sheWn, and the information- of ,the 'pea santry, were supposed to be at Arciniega. Their main body was conceived to be at Orrantia, and I 'Cook iipah EP -- yself the th,k Of dislodging them, with the first, the advanced guard, auch-the reserve. The fourth, under the command, ad interim, of Briga dier DQn ESTEBAN owing to the indispo sition of ,Alarquis DEL Potriazoo, pursued their original destinatiiin.(o ,Yalmaseda, but under a cau nonof not attacking should they fall in with a 4upe rior force. • " I am at a loss to what I should..ascritle the ye solution taken by the French to draW oti j their forces from .the corps of Ac Evan° but certain it is, that at Orrantia andArcipiega, we met only with accounts of their retreat, w.hi,ch they had fefeaed the same night ; and thus the divisions, which it was our ob jea..tO disengage, happily joined us. The fourth dfYision, however, was more fortunate than the rest . ; felt., reaching the environs of Valmaseda,where there were 7000 of the enemy under the command of the%General . Of Division they attacked them* with the greatest impetuosity, drove them ,out of the town, and pursued them more than a league, when they halted in consequetiCe of night coming '06.. The' enemy fled in the utmost disorder, having suffered a very great loss in killed and wound ed ; we•also took 44 of them prisoners, among whom was an oflicer . s "apd, they - left in our -hands a 4=• pounder, and two' ammun ition waggons, in a . ser viceable condition ; five baggage gr proviSion wag gons, some of thetri -.belonging to their General's .. establishment ; papers 2.`150 belonging to the latter, and an immense number: of other articles of booty. What much con tribtted to decide this brilliant affair, was the rapidity and ':k.i,clour n with which some corps of Asturians and a' the second division of Galicia descended upon yai m aseda the instant they observed the contest with the fourth division were commencing. This, and the-above-mentioned corps, have acquired an indisputable fight to the esteem of their fellow-countrymen—a claim which indeed be longs indiscriMinately to all OM -inimitable soldiers, who, continually in the open air 'since the 23d ult. during rainy nights, and the most inclement wea ther, all without hats, and a great part of them without clothes, - or even shoes or stoctings, .and, what is more, passing whole days without food, un ' derwent with alacrity the greatest fatigues, exhi biting pot the smallest symptom of dissatitaetion - udder such ,extraordinary privations, and gnmifest ing no other wish than that of destroying Oe ene b• the sacrifice of their own lives. " The above I , have transmitted to your Excel lency,, that you may-be pleased to communicate the same,to his Majesty. May God preserve your pi, cellency many years: • . n'int 7 colonel, .Don ,JAeo.eo -}Twore, captain of the Ch a s s eurs of - Oli'vetipki ; as Liedtenaut«Colonek _Commandant, .D 01) MARTIti •MART:INBZ, Captain of of the riment of Malaga; and as, Serjeant 7 M3- jor, Doty MAXACi . GiLLUD9; of t4e- reginuat Burgos.. _ . • - - , TO RRES PO NIAWT.Sir • * We ire,much bleiged to our Correspondent at Deal for his account of a recent Marriage at that place ; but as the Bridegroom, with all his good.humoui, might not like .to have his eccentricities known to all the world, we do not think it pr4per to insert it. • .. The OLD • lVIO"u s a in the'Green-rootfi is too personal in Ms attacks. We have nothing tb do with the private condud of the Adori Or Actresses, Unless they neglect their public duties, and openly trample upon decor urn. , - - MAILS. AItIIVID - I Dublin. t Waterford. Dux—l Gottcuburgh, i Malta, z ‘yaterfold. " MOST EXCELLENT SEIGNOR, Being without positive information of the force and siWaiion of the enemy, which it was,inclispensi bly necessary I should obtain, with a view to regu late. my operations, I Marched ye,terday with the first and second divisions, in the diredion of Guenes, and ordered the advaticed guard to proceed by Oor dejuela as fir as Sodnpe. The body of troops under my immediate command very soon fell in with four French regiments., formilig• an effedive force of .80 - 00 Men, and a firing took place, : which lasted the , whole of the day., without any 'advantage on either side.; Towards dusk the enemy fell back a little, and we suspended the movements which we had begun to make from right to left, with the view of attacking them in a new dire&ion.l.. • if • We should have, executed-. our m editated attaak this morning, with every prospect of success,..had • I not .the extreme inclemency of the night, and , tie exhausted condition of the troops from. want.? foiid • and intolerable' fatigue, compelled ine,to endeavour. to procure for them some shelter, rest, and felresh:: -rnent. I, therefore, marched - them bacli:,to quarters here a little befre day-break. ".The force of the enemy has been ascertained by the.deClarations , of some of , the prisoners, and also ; that Marshal LpotDrttE commanded in the action.' I learn that the vangnarcl.was attacked by . poo niep; and that after 'maintaining their ground. , with their. usual firmness, night also put an end to the conflict. " In communicating' the above to your Ex• tellency, and requesting that you will have the goodness to submit the same to his Majesty's eensi cieration, I cannot but mention in terms of the warmest commendation the gallantry, constancy, patience under fatigue and privations, and dis-' tinauished patriotism, manifested by the Generals, •2?- chiefs, Officeis, and soldiers. " I ought not to omit to state, that in the num ber of the wounded is Seignor Buten, Captain in the - serviCe Of his Britannic Majesty, an Officer of dis, tinguished skill and cool resolution, who would not !emits the field until he was carried off by the troops. I was also assisted by the Lieut.-Col. Seignor CAR- ROL, who, for three months, has been with this army in that capacity, taking a part in every engage ment, and in all of them giving an example of va lour.:' " May God preserve your Excellency many PRICE OE vocKs . • - D AY AT TWELV4t ( - 1 1 1.0C1C. ±COll.9Ol$ • • s 6S 66* thrthiunt dis. T II SUN. 11pLA , 11 QUIS D1 , 4t2. 1 1 I 4 .W:'l ♦UDS4.T years. / " j'OACIULN BLAKE." •, Head-quarters at Valmaseda, Nov. 8, 148. The Most Excellent Seignor, the Secretary of State lot we War Department.!' FRIDAY, DECgMBER $, 1806. This morning an Officer' froth Oporto arrived In gowning -street, with Dispatches. ,He came over in the Bpnne Cii4enne. He touched at Corunua, on his paisage • home, and sailed again from that place on the morning of the 26th ultimo. At that time nO news of importance had ,been received there of a subsequent date to that which we yesterday communicated to our Readers. After quit ting Corunna the Bonne Citoyenne fell in with the Minerva Frigate, which had been cruizing to the Eastward, the Captain of which stated, that he had received .iutelligence that 'the French had at tacked the Marquis DE LA ROMAN& and Gn. BLAKE in the, strong position,which he had taken. at St Vincente de la- Barcinera, that the. battle was wow obstinately contested, but at le4gth• the French weredefeated with very great loss, and the Spanish , , • . Army were in consequence , of this success about to advance• The above is the substance of the intelligence corrp:nppicated by Captain ..HAWKINS, of .the Mi ner va . It certainly is not to be conslciprea as official, but appears to be . highly probable.— The positipn at •St. .Vineetite de la Barquera, is an extremely strong one, and the .French Army Must have been very much weakened by the nu merous and sanguinary confliats :n which it had been engaged. We have this day continued our Extrafts from the Spanish Papers, but they add very little to the . Official Intelligence ,which we wereyestrday en-, abled to 'lair before - our Readers. 'lt appears from ale; the 'acc7a , ints which have been received, that the French commenced their operations with their usual inpetuosity, and fu,llowed 'up their advantages with thcir - iilifal rapidity. But-although General BLAKE, from the ipleisio — ritY'of his nuMhers, was compelled to, give . way - before the ',French, • yet he obstinately clispaidd every inch of ground : for..several days he was engaged in almost continual aetiOns) . in some of which,notwithstanding the inequality of force, he repulsed the, French. The loss which. the French sustained in such a series of obstinate battles is not mentioned, but it must have la , 4eb.gt eat, and the only advantage which,they seem at present to have ob.- tainedis' the-possession of Burgos and St. Andero. Neither of- these places are capable of making any resistance, and if the MarquiS DE BONANA shoUld be in a condition to advanee,again e from St. cente de la Barquera, as we are'led to hope from the last accounts, the French will be under the necessity of evacuating St. Andero as rapidly as they entered it. Some of our Contempora!ies have stated their apprehenions that ,the French, by their rapid advances, would be able to present the jundiod of our Troops, and some have even gone _.so far as to express alarms for . their - safety. It is very probable that the French, in pushing fa1a........ , • MADRID, NOV. 15.--,-COUIItS TORRALBA and TA- SO tar as Vt43 ti d o lid , h a d -43.110.• Ottieets in. view, LARA, anxious to give a proof of their patriotism 1 viz, to excite ' alarm throughout the Country, and loyalty, under the present circumstances of the and to.impede the march of our Troops, by advancing country, and to contribute , as far as lies in their power, to its relief, have granted to its use, as long so ue,cir to -the place where -they were .to -form -a as these circumstances continue, all the rents in juudien ; but it does not appear that they had any kind and money accruing to them from the estate ,serious design of attacking our Troops. The force and'dUchy of Medina de Rio S eco, i n cludin g such ... , ..suilla as may be adually in the hands of their with which they advanced to Valladolid was not sretvards, ufficient for that purpose, and if the private Letters n wards, to Whom they have long since sen t orders not to dispose of any part of them. . , may be relied upon,. they very soon retreated from D. JIJAN MURFI, having offered to raise, at his . • that City to Burgos. • It would . indeed be a Most own expence, a regiment of in fantr y of the line, • • • consisLiog • of 'three battalions oh thP" War establish- dangerous experiment to . anvance" for theipnrpose of . attacking our Troops, leaving or; their right flank an ment, and to be offic l ered . gratuitously by Officers beronging. to 't4e army, 'the' Supreme : (ioverning A r my of between '2O and 30-,OGO men, under the lima' of the Kingdom 14 accepted 'NS patriotic • . _ DE offer; and conferred upon him' the rank of Colonel. 'Marquis ROMAN A, and on their left the un- Generals CASTANOS and PALAr 9 X. They have at,(he same time appo i n ted as Lievite > broken Army of a ! -- . -Thert are reports in ...serne of the rrT:ciate letter!, of 3UONArstitTE having reached Madrid: other ac' ,counts state that he has returned,to Paris. We do not believo either. He is probably, at 'Vittoria, di" reading' the .movement of his armies. The Supreme.Junraismaking exertions proPor' tionate to the importince of the contest in wllicis their country is engaged. A general levy of •alithc, males capable of bearing arms, has been ordered , bu t th6 - alacrity of the Spaniards to fight againit . the elle" tnies of their•couptry;re.pderscompulsory rneasur.V ,pnpecepsasy. We this morning received Lisbon Gazettes to tho 15t11 ult. tlle . cputeilts of which are given in a iub sequent Column. Tue arrival of an Austrian Messenger, in OA Minstrel Sloop of War, from Malta, as *Wed is ,our Plymouth Letter, is an event that will naturally excite much interest. The unfortunate state of t he Continent obliged bhp, we may conclude,- to come dawn the Adriatic, in order to procure a pass l o ° 'to this Country. The same letter mentions. the return of the Go: hounl Cartel, from Morlsir, but the vigilance Wit ''' . which she was observed, prevented her fro si obtaining Any intelligence respeCting the state a things on shore. NIWIII111.1111,10•1 • The Chief Opposition Paper, referring to wha t was said in The *IN, on the folly of con-' dernning Ministers for' not having compelled the Spaniards to accept the aid of our troops! after they had civilly, but positively, declined 'to says, that " none but an imbecile would, susP e them of such an' aet of insanity." if it be imbo l ' lity to suspeet the Opposition Writers of such ins'' , pity, it must be surely something worse than itub c ! * * cility to be guilty of such a complaint; and y 6 thG Paper alluded to has repeatedly rung the changesP r ' l the,weakness, folly, and criminality of Iviinist ers ' for not having given more etreanal asslstao. o. l (? Spain, and it is still labouring t o prove, that WO: the co-operation of 'our -troops was declined iP part ofSpairi,, ought to have been carried:toe:a. ther. We are referred, indeed, to a letteraldr e ► by Sir THONIASDYER to Sir AR.T R HUWELLS SI.6- :: soliciting the assistanceof the Fritish arm y der command, for the Asturians; but the writers forget dates, and they presume that they can be tt'F judge than Sir A4THUR whether after th e r.ei ee - bt ' 'don of his offer by the isinta of Galicia, he Jrg not have excited the jealousy of the Spaniards .$r late, and whether it was not on that and Ol' e f considerations, wiser for him to push on teF Ol. : , :: gal, in order to drive the French out of that tl try ; besides, 11e . was - r arnestly-advised . tOlte lt 5 . 10 ameasure, as the best means t o forward the Cr ": io per of .both counttles. Bat the OPposition not unwilling to throw a sarcasm upon Sir .4. 1 1j 47 a, en passant, for he says, that " if instead of P r ' c r, s , ing to Portugal, he had staid to assist the ttstPr!%;l, he might have done more good, aye, and .gattlerio' more laurels, too, than he did in fighting the P 1 , 04. D'Anuat4T2s, either by proxy or yin persott• • ti ' ; believe that few people will think that Sir ,A4r l.° ' iti . could have gained more liturels than. he Oil ed 0 ;' , his victory over JIJNOT, .haviever they maydiff er ve to the Convention ; ,but every body, we con cel ' must, despise the i n sinuation that . Sir Attr 4l . /ft too dispoied to fight by proxy, or that he W 39 O t . e j much alert on his post,.in the glorious aaion 3 1 1 t i is b to, to warraut, any such pitiful attempt to °r tieing those laurels. We are almost ashamed' of tw , t i o r,, what, to adopt the words of the Paper io q ue „ v qldb ° " none but:an imbecile"could write; but i* C' f ' O ' injustice to the writer not to mention 0t1e,9"- 16 ,...i# his sagacity, as we cannot help thinking 00' e i or e of the most striking proofs o f sagac it y be evio 111 e xhibited, and because it sht..ws a regard to 1 1d 111 ,; '' and simple matter of fad which we 1140. rt ea a n witnessed in his lucubrations. Mark, ti,er' `` , rit e" profit by the wisdom of the maxim -- the • e , with extraordinary' wisdom, observes, that f%Pire ditions are likely to be most beneficial when theY ilef most wanted, and that " if they arrive p a late, t` had better never hate: departed." Co f Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Duke - 13ERLAND, -Princesses AUGUsTA , SOP H ( Ai ' LIA, accompanied by Lord WALSIN GH Of, GO' CRANLEY, Generals TiIITZROY and HARCOURT. lonels TAYt.oti and DESI3ROW, took - an aiO g eel, Windsor Great Park, where Mr. BRAD—LEY, tltol 4 lebrated young Yorkshire , giant, only 1 6 1.1 4 0 40 ,; age,,was taking .his morning exercise; Hi- I s el A ; and the Royal Party stopped and converse" 1 :01f him for some- time. The Duke of CeLvu"i re ,rse and Lord WALSINGISAM alighted from their L'`ifors' and walked under .his aim ; the Duke of C i tf ; : 10 1 ' 4 ' LAND meaSures five teet eleven inches. Friigille' ,JESTY and the Royal Parry wer e higblY with his conversation and geoilernan-iiko so c) r and expressed their surprise at seeing a Pe" ) o f r stature grown in every way proportionable' ortel)t walking with the Royal Party for aboW. , ° .,50 1 - 5 an hour, Mr. BRADLEY went into a p ost tie Iv was Waitin; and returned to his quarters, ti e t ll '' to T ; a 3 l H v a e c i r e s " M a i t lf : h j a i E n i S f d i' la r. a s n t dttwhiceivßeo3ora,cliorcakrt.y